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安德鲁·卡内基《安德鲁·卡内基自传》· Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · 领导
It gave me a pang to find when I reached America that there was any other country which pretended to have anything to be proud of. What was a country without Wallace, Bruce, and Burns? I find in the untraveled Scotsman of to-day something still of this feeling. It remains for maturer years and wider knowledge to tell us that every nation has its heroes, its romance, its traditions, and its achievements; and while the true Scotsman will not find reason in after years to lower the estimate he has formed of his own country and of its position even among the larger nations of the earth, he will find ample reason to raise his opinion of other nations because they all have much to be proud of--quite enough to stimulate their sons so to act their parts as not to disgrace the land that gave them birth.
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定位:Additional excerpt 25 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
到达美国后,发现还有别的国家自称有值得骄傲的东西,这让我感到一阵刺痛。一个没有华莱士、布鲁斯和彭斯的国家算什么?我发现今天未出过远门的苏格兰人仍有这种感觉。这要留待更成熟的岁月和更广阔的知识来告诉我们:每个国家都有它的英雄、它的传奇、它的传统和它的成就;而真正的苏格兰人在后来的岁月里,虽然不会找到理由降低他对自己的国家及其即使在大国中的地位的评价,但他会找到充分的理由提高对其他国家的评价,因为它们都有许多值得骄傲的地方——足以激励它们的儿子们扮演好自己的角色,不辜负生养他们的土地。
上下文
卡内基随家人移民美国后,对比苏格兰与美国,反思狭隘的民族自豪感,时年约13岁。
今日一问
你是否曾因了解其他文化而改变对自己国家的看法?
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